BCC have progressed the City Plan amendments to enable rooftop shade structures in residential and centre zones without triggering another storey by definition, generally in line with YIMBY Qld’s Shady…
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Ever wonder why your pesky neighbour got away with building 3-storeys when the rules clearly state a maximum of 2? Here we look at why Development Controls are and should…
Beddown and other forms of social and affordable housing require a yes in my back yard, or YIMBY mindset more than any other form of development. While luxury and market…
The World’s Greenest residential building is coming to Brisbane! and includes over 20,000 plants….? Wait… Brisbane? YES! you read that correctly. ARIA Property Group’s ambitious, bold and innovative proposal –…
The 80’s introduced us to the mullet, leg warmers, spandex and …. the NIMBY. Fast forward to the 2010’s and we’ve seen the battle in our suburbs reaching fever pitch,…
Today, Saturday 11th July, is World Population Day. It seeks to “focus attention on the urgency and importance if population issues.” “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the world’s…
The developer vs community narrative continues on! This week, a sensationalist television report took aim at ‘rooming accommodation’. The false claims in promotion advertising stated ‘rooming accommodation’ as ‘units’ which…
Oh, that dreaded morning commute by car during peak hour. The traffic snarls, stopping and starting and slowly, very slowly. At least I could try and sip my all-important morning…
Fitness crazes, aren’t they iconic? Who can ever forget those vigorous 80’s aerobics workouts? Those outrageous Fluro-coloured outfits, overzealous instructors and Jane Fonda’s best-selling VHS home workout that supposedly toned…
The great ‘Toilet paper’ debacle of 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis, had many household members set out for Brisbane shops and supermarkets desperate to secure multi-packs or even a roll…
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By Natalie Rayment It’s the century of the city, a decade of densification in an urban millennium. In the space of a New York Minute, cities are growing up fast. …
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Thank you to Jane Pinder and the team at The Courier-Mail for a great piece at the weekend that revealed good development actually leads to increased greenspace rather than destroying…
By Natalie Rayment The community initiated a state ministerial call-in of a development approval for the West Village Project at West End. A ministerial call-in allows the relevant Minister to…
By Natalie Rayment Being the ‘King of Cool’, if Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli were a millennial he would have a deconstructed coffee and some smashed avo for breakfast at the local…
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